文档介绍：New College English: Integrated Course 1
Text A
Text B
Listening and Speaking
Unit 5: Romance
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Pre-reading Tasks
Language Points
Interesting expressions
Exercises
Assignment
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Lead-in Questions
1. Do you have a favorite love song? What is its name? Who is the singer? Can you sing or hum the tune?
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Lead-in Questions
2. Do you expect love during the four-year university life? Then what is love in you opinion?
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Text A:
A Valentine Story
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A Valentine Story
Doug Bell
1. John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station.
Cultural Notes
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2. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun twelve months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he soon found himself absorbed, not by the words of the book, but by the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.
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3. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II.
4. During the next year he two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused.
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5. She explained: “If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won’t matter. Suppose I’m beautiful. I’d always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me. Suppose I’m plain (and you must admit that thi